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A sampling of Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) staff and research in the news:

Careful What You Wish For, Fortune, December 31, 2008

Dr. Big Brother?, Fox News, November 12, 2008

"Who might be keeping watch on what you're watching?", guardian.co.uk, July 13, 2008
"Senators Want Criminal Prosecutions of Passport Snoopers", PC World, July 8, 2008
"Google homepage link mollifies privacy campaigners", ZDNet UK, July 7, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Privacy Advocates To Google: Told You So", Media Post Publications, July 7, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Post-9/11 dragnet finds surprises", theNewsTribune.com, July 6, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Student locator tags: Evil or helpful?", Projo.com, July 5, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"YouTube's Legal Fig Leaf", Forbes.com, July 3, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Are the Feds Stalking Your Cell Phone? Lawsuit Seeks Answers", TechNewsWorld, July 2, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney

"Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA", ZDNet, June 30, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Terror watch uses local eyes 181 TRAINED IN COLO", Denver Post, June 28, 2008 with EPIC Open Government Project Director John Verdi
"A Company Computer and Questions About E-Mail Privacy", New York Times, June 27, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Feingold: Bush admin secrecy can't outweigh travelers' privacy", the raw story, June 25, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"No 'Street View' for Madison County", Granite City Press-record, June 21, 2008 with EPIC Open Government Project Director John Verdi
"House Votes to Shield Telecoms From Eavesdropping Charges", TechNewsWorld.com, June 20, 2008 with EPIC Executive Marc Rotenberg
"How much do you make? It'd be no secret in Scandinavia", USA Today, June 18, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Big Mayor Is Watching You", HPR Online, June 12, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Scientists Track People Movement Via Cellphones, Ire Privacy Groups", Daily Tech, June 10, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google says it would support U.S. privacy law", Reuters UK, June 10, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Corporate Vigilante", Washington City Paper, June 7, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Cellphone Tracking Study Shows We're Creatures of Habit", New York Times, June 5, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google Asked to Add Link to Privacy Policies", New York Times, June 3, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"Google Seeks Dismissal Of Street View Lawsuit", InformatonWeek, May 30, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Is Google Violating a California Privacy Law?", New York Times, May 30, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"The future of political dirty tricks and deception online", Ars Technica, May 22, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Cisco Systems document cites China censorship goal", Associated Press, May 20, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Charter's Web monitoring draws intervention from Capitol Hill", CNET News, May 16, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"California city gets video surveillance fever", CNET News, May 14, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Identity thieves prey on patients' medical records", USA Today, May 7, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"A Scholarship Hunt With Strings Attached", Washington Post, May 7, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Online profile may be an alias", Mercury News, May 4, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"The Real Threat to Google", E-Commerce Times, May 3, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"Internet Use Raises Privacy Concerns", Voice of America, April 29, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Fingerprinting proposal rankles travel companies", CNN, April 23, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"In Every Voter, A 'Microtarget' ", Washington Post, April 22, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
" Anti-'Pretexting' Efforts Stall in Congress", Heartland Institute, April 22, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Police force's Facebook app raises privacy concerns", ZDNet UK, April 21, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Agent's case might unveil privacy issues", Denver Post, April 14, 2008 with Skadden Fellow, Guilherme Roschke
"Franklin Park couple clashes with Google over privacy", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, April 13, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Microsoft not opposed to regulation of online privacy", CNET, April 11, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"EC Group Could Spur Search Privacy Sea Change", E-commerce Times, April 8, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"University Computer Breach Risks Data of Students Who Never Went There", Chronicle.com, April 8, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
" 'Shield' IDs to foil electronic pickpockets", Journalgazette.net, April 8, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"What a trip: Passports join the high-tech era", San Luis Obispo Tribune, April 7, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"E-pickpockets may target wallets", Press Democrat, April 3, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"More extensive tourist fingerprinting comes to U.S. ports", Christian Science Monitor, March 27, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
" Civil Libertarians See a Hopeful Dawn in 2009 ... the Fools", Wired, March 27, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Kovacic Appointed New FTC Chairman", Washington Post, March 27, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"There's Gold In 'Reality Mining' ", FoxReno.com, March 24, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Surveillance cameras in Dallas area work to counter crime", Dallas News.com, March 22, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Government's information security called lax", Detroit Free Press, March 22, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Cell phones become tools for helping detectives find crime suspects", Sun-Sentinal.com, March 21, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Passport peeping - more than just curiosity?", San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenber
"Tips and Tricks at the ABA Techshow 2008", Law.com, March 21, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"FBI provided flawed data for terrorism watch list, audit says", LA Times, March 18, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Web companies keep track on every click", Arkansas Democrat Gazette, March 17, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Hopes and fears being sold to advertisers", Sydney Morning Herald, March 16, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"The Privacy Debate Beyond Google-DoubleClick", Internetnews.com, March 13, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Study: Dark Data Shadow Follows Everyone", ECommerceNews.com, March 13, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"How DoubleClick Could Recharge Google", PC World, March 12, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Certegy offers deal to ID theft victims", St. Petersburg Times, March 11, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Google-DoubleClick a done deal", Computer World, March 11, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Checking Your Favorite Site? Somebody Is Watching You", eFluxMedia.com, March 11, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"City Mandates Installation of "Big Brother" Video Monitors in All New Buildings", Natural News, March 3, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Surveillance System Raises Privacy Concerns", Newsfactor.com, March 3, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo

"FTC Chairman Set to Leave Post", Washington Post, February 28, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Bush's Double-Edged Cyber-Security Plan", Forbes.com, February 26, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"Search Engines Face New Privacy Restrictions", Media Post Publications, February 25, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"US-VISIT expands its vision", Washington Technology, February 25, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google mounts Chewbacca defense in EU privacy debate", The Register, February 23, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Web Surfer, Heal Thyself", Newsweek, February 23, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"LexisNexis Parent Set to Buy ChoicePoint", Washington Post, February 21, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Privacy, civil rights advocates castigate Wikileaks ruling", Mac World, February 20, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"FISA bill would prevent exposure of details of warrantless wiretapping", SearchSecurity.com, February 13, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Surveillance Society", FOX 45 Baltimore, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"More airport security proposed for E.U.", Marketplace, February 13, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Report: EU To Curb Search Engines", Media Post Publications, February 13, 2008, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Senate OK's immunity on wiretaps", Boston Globe, February 12, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Lockheed Secures Contract to Expand Biometric Database", Washington Post, February 12, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"DHS' annual privacy report later than expected, again", FCW.com, February 11, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Web sites let others see users' personal data", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 10, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Real ID worries domestic violence groups", CNET News, February 8, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Police Blotter: E911 rules aid police in tracking cell phones", CNET News, February 8, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"$63M Highway Watch program reviewed, Costs of anti-terror measure weighed", USA Today, February 7, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Voter ID: The Solution, or the Problem?", New York Times, Letter to the Editor, February 6, 2008, with Marc Rotenberg and Lillie Coney
"Few Super Tuesday e-voting problems reported", Computer World, February 6, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"FBI Eyes Multi-Billion Dollar Biometrics Database", Dark Reading, February 5, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"What 'MicroHoo' Would Know About You", Forbes, February 4, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Companies map new uses for tracking chips", San Francisco Chronicle, February 3, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Hiding From REAL ID", Reason, February 1, 2008 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Privacy advocates sound alarms over Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo", Computer World, February 1, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"US, EU Unlikely to Stop Microsoft Deal", Associated Press, February 1, 2008 with EPIC Excutive Director Marc Rotenberg
"With Yahoo, Microsoft faces antitrust fight once again", CNET News, February 1, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"It's hard to hide from your online 'friends', Pentagraph.com, January 31, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Will EU Privacy Decision Help U.S. Downloaders?", CIO Today, January 30, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Ask.com's Search Policy Splits Privacy Groups", Forbes, January 29, 2008, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Microchips Everywhere Could Mean Total Loss of Privacy", Fox News, January 28, 2008, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Net addresses personal data, EU official says", Arkansas Democrating Gazzete, January 28, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision", Associated Press, January 26, 2008, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"EU debates privacy of IP numbers", in The Register, January 25, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Researchers Develop 100% Accurate Electronic Face Recognition", ABC News, January 24, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Privacy backers push FTC to end AskEraser service", on ComputerWorld, January 24, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"EPIC Slams Ask, Google On Privacy", on WebProNews.com, January 24, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Do Internet Companies Protect Data Well Enough?", on Adotas.com, January 24, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Ask.com's Privacy Tool Tracks Users, Groups Tell Feds -- Updated", Wired, January 22, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"METAL DETECTORS AND MATH CLASSES", Citylimits.org, January 21, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"WHAT DO CAMERAS CURE? SYSTEM GETS OWN SCRUTINY", Citylimits.org, January 21, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Keeping you safe, invading your privacy?", The Vail Trail, January 16, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"In Child Porn Case, a Digital Dilemma", in Washington Post, January 16, 2008, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"US.gov sets Real ID rules in stone", in The Register, January 14, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"FBI Aims for World's Largest Biometrics Database", in The New American, January 14, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"New Real I.D. Rules To Shut Down Nation's Airports in May?", in Wired News, January 12, 2008 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"The Search party: Google squares off with DC critics", in Reclaim the Media, January 12, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"US, UK, China and Russia are endemic surveillance societies", in Thaindian News, January 8, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Waterboarding the White House", in The Village Voice, January 8, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Can You Count on Voting Machines?", in New York Times Magazine, January 6, 2008 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Q&A: New technologies pose online privacy uncertainties, Rotenberg claims", in Computerworld, January 2, 2008, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Renewed FISA could protect telecoms", on Marketplace, January 2, 2008 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"NLR police see crime deterrent in cameras", in Arkansas Democrat Gazette, December 31, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Anti-terror center adds crime focus", in Chicago Tribune, December 28, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Group says Ask's privacy feature is flawed", in CNet News, December 20, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Privacy groups ramp up Google-DoubleClick attacks", in CNet News, December 18, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Ask.com Gives Privacy Control to Users", on toptechnews.com, December 11, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"Companies harvesting personal information from Web activity", in Dallas Morning News, December 8, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Experts to Facebook: Mind Your Manners", in PCWorld, December 7, 2007 with Skadden Fellow Guilherme Roschke
"Facebook's Overblown Privacy Problems", in Forbes, December 5, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Target me with your ads, please", in ZDNet, December 4, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Customs to collect full sets of visitors' prints", in USA Today, December 3, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo

"Privacy Groups Ready FTC Complaint Against Facebook", in MediaPost Publications, November 29, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Volunteer files suit Ex-Rescue chief, Web site accused of libel", in Brattleboro Reformer, November 28, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Giving Friends' Online Recommendations a 'Whrrl'", in Mac News World, November 25, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Cost for DMV records rising", on Examiner.com, November 24, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Keeping an eye on sex offenders", in Houston Chronicle, November 16, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Are You Being Watched? If You Said 'No', Think Again", in Free Internet Press, November 16, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"House Ditches Spy Bill's Telecom Immunity Provision", in TechNewsWorld, November 16, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Raytheon wins $1.35b contract for UK security", on Boston.com, November 15, 2007 with Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"Cameras take aim at trouble", in Florida Today, November 13, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"N.Y. License Plan Sparks Debate", on eWeek.com, November 12, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Senior Intelligence Official: Change Your Understanding of Privacy", on TMPmuckraker, November 12, 2007 EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Give it a Whrrl: Service blends Net, friends' advice", in USA Today, November 12, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"New Facebook Ad Techniques Raise Privacy Concerns", in PC World, November 10, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Privacy vs. Security? Privacy.", in The Huffington Post, November 9, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"D.C. Drivers Could Access Metro Using License Under New Plan", on NBC 4, November 6, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Yahoo Squirms Under Congressional Grilling Over Jailed Journalist", in ECommerce Times, November 6, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"DMV wants SmarTrip chips in driver's licenses", in Washington Examiner, November 6, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Privacy Mavens Leery Of Latest Targeted Ad Launches", in Media Post Publications, November 6, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Strategy refines fusion centers' role", on FCW.com, November 5, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"E.U. Seeks Data on American Passengers", in Washington Post, November 3, 2007 with Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"Google Hires Gonzales' Privacy Lawyer", in Wired, November 2, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"School security cameras go cutting edge", in USA Today, November 2, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Bush releases national strategy for sharing intelligence", on FCW.com, November 1, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney

"Privacy Groups Ask for Online 'Do Not Track' List", in Wired, October 31, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"And don't follow me online, either", in Marketplace, October 31, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Germany seeks expansion of computer spying", in Los Angeles Times, October 30, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"No intervention by Australia's competition watchdog in Google buyout ", in ComputerWorld, October 29, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Scanning students' fingers hits a nerve", in Statesman Journal, October 23, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"NSA cooperation: OK for e-mail, IM companies?", on CNetNews.com, October 22, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Protecting Consumers: Privacy Matters in Antitrust Analysis", Center for American Progress, October 19, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"America's Most Cowardly Sheriff", in The Village Voice, October 19, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"We know where you are, now shop" on amNEWYORK.com, October 17, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
OECD Calibrates Role In Fast-Changing Internet Society, on ip-watch.org, October 15, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"New U.S. airport scanner sees through clothes", on CTV.ca, October 14, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"New phone service taps into convos", in The Daily Free Press, October 10, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"City passes camera law", in Baltimore Sun, October 7, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"St. Louis gets ready to add surveillance cameras downtown", in St. Louise Post-Dispatch, October 6, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"New report monitors our privacy", in Marketplace, October 5, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"County Assessor Putting Homeowner Info on Internet", on 92.3 KTAR, October 3, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Germans Suspicious of 'GoogleClick'", on Internetnews.com, October 2, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"Who's Making Book on the Google-DoubleClick Deal Going Through?" in SEO/SEM Journal, September 30, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google, Microsoft spar before senators", in Los Angeles Times, September 28, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"New Service Allows Free Internet Phone Calls," on Fox5 News, September 25, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Google to Testify That DoubleClick Deal Will Spur Competition", on Bloomberg.com, September 27, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"ID tags get under critics' skin", in News Canada , September 27, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"A Washington Bank Shot -- How A Telephone Company Lobbyist Works To Weaken Google", in Huffington Post, September 25, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Seeking the key to web privacy", in Financial Times, September 23, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"AP Newsbreak: Missouri tracking cell phones for traffic flows", on BND.com, September 21, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Privacy advocates wary of data 'fusion centers' ", on Executive Government.com, September 20, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Bush Wants Spy Law Changes Set in Stone", in Tech News World, September 20, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Senate plans hearing on Google-DoubleClick deal", on CNet News.com , September 19, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Privacy Groups Criticize Google", in PC World, September 17, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Software helps lunch line at crowded high school move faster, but at what cost to students' privacy?", in Sun Times, September 17, 2005 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Google Calls for International Standards on Internet Privacy", in Washington Post, September 15, 2007 with EPIC Executiive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google promises to lead crusade for international privacy rules", in The Canadian Press, September 13, 2007 with EPIC Executiive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Britain Pushes The Limits of Modern Surveillance", in CIO, September 12, 2007, with EPIC Executiive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Your call may be monitored", on GCN.com, September 10, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Judge Rules Against Patriot Act Provision", in Sci-Tech Today, September 8, 2007, with EPIC Executiive Director Marc Rotenberg
"The word on microchipping people", in Nashua Telegraph, September 8, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"High technology off menu", in Chicago Tribune, September 7, 2007 with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"People search engine Rapleaf revises privacy policy", on CNetNews.com, September 4, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Look Who's Stalking Who: Aw, come on, admit it; you know you've looked", on JournalNow.com, September 3, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
" High Tech Helpers or Big Brother Surveillance Tools?", in The Chief Engineer, September 1, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"Teacher's Nightmare: Ogling Video on YouTube", on ABC News, August 26, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Electronic surveillance destroys privacy, but few seem to mind", in San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Microchips in humans: High-tech helpers or Big Brother surveillance?", in BusinessDay, August 21, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Facebook makes it easy to "profile stalk"", in Seattle Times , August 21, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"New Law May Permit Broader Spying On American Citizens", Theday.com, August 19, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Sensitive Files Found Left In Dumpster", NBC4, August 17, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"White House, Judges Grapple Over State Secrets in AT&T Spy Suit", in TechNewsWorld, August 16, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"EPIC: Biometric Identification in Iraq Could Become a Tool for Ethnic Cleansing", in Harper's Magazine, August 15, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"New U.S. airport screening to be tested", in ImedNews, August 15, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Justice, civil liberties groups battle over spy tactics", on Government Executive.com, August 14, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Facebook grows up", in Newsweek, August 14, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"US doles out millions for street cameras", in Boston Globe, August 12, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Industry-funded Group and a Compliant THREAT LEVEL Working To Derail Google-Doubleclick Probe, Privacy Group Charges - UPDATED", in Wired, August 10, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Feds consider lowering passenger data requirements", on CNET News.com, August 10, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Police agencies push for drone sky patrols", on ZDNet.com, August 9, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Search Privacy Study Comes Under Fire", in Top Tech News, August 9, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"FISA: What Isn't Electronic Surveillance?", in TPM, August 6, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Police to form Privacy Council", on SBSun.com, August 3, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Microchips in humans: High-tech helpers or Big Brother surveillance?", on CNN, August 3, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Border Computers Vulnerable to Attack: GAO Report Details Problems in System", in Washington Post, August 3, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Secret Court Ruling Sparks Heated Government Surveillance Debate", in Tech News World, August 2, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"What to Look for in the FISA Fix", in TPM, August 2, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Americans Want More Surveillance", on Voice of America, August 1, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Major Search Engines Battle It Out on Privacy Protection", in PCWorld, August 1, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"More People Favor Security over Privacy", on CBNNews.com, July 31, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Searching For John Q. Public", in Businessweek, July 25, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Search Engines Tighten Privacy", in Washington Post, July 24, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Many cities are turning to surveillance", on PJStar.com, July 23, 2007 with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Chipping at privacy?", in Chicago Sun Times, July 22, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"What's been said about the microchipping of people", in International Herold Tribune, July 21, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google/DoubleClick Deal Faces Congressional Inquiry", on MediaPostPublications.com, July 18, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google: User Cookies to Expire After Two Years", on PCWorld.com, July 17, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google Knows All, Or Close Enough To Raise Concerns", on Investers.com, July 16, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"US lawmakers try to restrict usage of Social Security numbers", on InterGovWorld.com, July 10, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Software lets parents monitor kids' calls", in CNet News, July 10, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Advertisements That Watch You Smile", in Deutsche Welle, July 10, 2007, EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Looking into Baltimore, London cameras", in Charlottesville Newsweekly, July 10, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"News Analysis: Marketers Eye Google In Web Privacy War", in Brandweek, July 9, 2007, discussing EPIC's complaint to the Federal Trade Commission
"How to: protect your privacy online and why", on Journalism.co.uk, July 9, 2007, discussing EPIC
"Do We Really Want Big Brother Watching Us?", in American Chronicle, July 6, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Momentous NSA Injunction: Experts' First Impressions", in Wired News, July 6, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google's DoubleClick Buy Draws EU Criticism" on Webpronews.com, July 5, 2007, discussing EPIC
"Sunshine Law Turned 40 (or 41) on July 4", in Wired News, July 4, 2007, discussing EPIC
"Feds' immigration database wrongly flags 18M workers", in Tuscon Citizen, July 3, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg

"Legal-worker database flawed", in The Arizona Republic, June 30, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Disney: The Happiest Privacy Breaches on Earth", Peter Greenberg Travel News, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Network of surveillance cameras proposed for Pittsburgh", in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 27, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Mobile devices ripe targets for spies", on Theage.com.au, June 24, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"The net effect of Google", in Gainesville Sun, June 23, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Mobile devices ripe targets for spies", on Yahoo! News, June 23, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Privacy Advocates Resist REAL ID Act", on CIO.com, June 21, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Caller ID Spoofing", on ABC News, June 21, 2007, with Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"Court Mandates Warrant for E-Mail Search", in Sci-Tech Today, June 20, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"The Credential Conundrum", on GCN.com, June 18, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Ogled By Google", in Hartford Courant, June 18, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Busy season for merger cops", in Seattle Times, June 13, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Google's privacy policies worst on Web: watchdog", on Canada AM TV, June 12, 2007 with Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"Google called worst at protecting privacy", in Marketplace, June 11, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Groups want limits on Google", in San Francisco Chronicle, June 7, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Does facial recognition invade your privacy?", on GCN.com, June 4, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"New agency aims to upgrade spy technology", in Daily Herold, June 4, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Real ID Act Coming to Your Town - Maybe", on NewsMax.com, June 1, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo

"Real ID, real debate", in Washington Technology, May 28, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Regulators check Google-DoubleClick deal", in MacWorld, May 29, 2007, discussed with EPIC
"White House Edits To Privacy Board's Report Spur Resignation", in Free Internet Press, May 15, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"HPD wants cameras to monitor crime", in Houston Chronicle, May 15, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Two controversial bills aim to rein in identity theft", on ZDNet.com, May 14, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Face recognition next in terror fight", in USA Today, May 10, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Privacy groups renew push against Real ID bill", in Computer World , May 3, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo

"Google nudges states to make records more accessible", in USA Today, April 30, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Borders Spell Trouble for Arab-American", in New York Times, April 29, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"For Judges, Danger Can Be Part Of The Job", in Tampa Tribune, April 29, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"On the government's 'watch list' ", in San Francisco Chronicle, April 27, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"160 000 personal files stolen latest US retailer breach", in Secure Computing Magazine, April 26, 2006, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Municipal Wi-Fi Raises Privacy Concerns", in Top Tech News , April 25, 2007, discussed with EPIC
"White House panel pushes new identity fraud laws", in ZN News Asia, April 24, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"The Sell-Phone Revolution", in Businessweek, April 23, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Privacy Group Objects To DoubleClick Deal", in Washington Post, April 20, 2007, discussing EPIC's complaint to the Federal Trade Commission
"Google draws privacy complaint to FTC", in CNET News , April 20, 2007, discussing EPIC's complaint to the Federal Trade Commission
"EPIC, CDD ask FTC to block Google-DoubleClick merger", in IT World, April 20, 2007, discussing EPIC's complaint to the Federal Trade Commission
"FTC Asked to Block Google-DoubleClick Merger", in PC World, April 20, 2007, discussing EPIC's complaint to the Federal Trade Commission
"Georgians' personal data lost", in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 11, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Email Privacy", on C-Span Washington Journal, April 7, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Telecom Firms Oppose FCC's New Rules on Phone Privacy", in Washington Post, Apr 7, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"FCC imposes rules designed to prevent pretexting,", in CNET News, Apr 3, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"FCC adopts new phone privacy rules", in USA Today, April 3, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Debate lingers over federal data-handling laws", in InfoWorld, Apr 3, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"TJX Says 45 Million Credit Cards Hacked", in Sci-Tech Today, Apr 2, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Privacy advocates: Risk is embedded in each e-passport", on NJ.com, April 1, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo

"Payment systems culprit in TJX heist", in InfoWorld, March 29, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Privacy experts take on Commission over US data deal", in EurActiv, March 28, 200,7 with EPIC Executive Director, Marc Rotenberg
"FBI Provided Inaccurate Data for Surveillance Warrants", in Washington Post, March 27, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Mark Rotenberg
"Terror Database Has Quadrupled In Four Years", in Washington Post, March 25, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"New Security Scanner Sees Through Clothes, But With Modesty", on National Geographic News, March 22, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"DHS: REAL ID protects your privacy, we promise", on Homeland Stupidity.com, March 22, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Homeland Security Spins, Plays Down Real ID Privacy Worries", in RNN, March 22, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Homeland Security dismisses Real ID privacy worries", in CNET News, March 21, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Mini says a 'high-tech hello' to its drivers", in MSNBC, March 21, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Google Enters Partnership To Support Free EHRs", on iHealthbeat.org, March 16, 2007, with EPIC Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"Medical site is on a mission to set records", in San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2007, with EPIC Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"Google adding search privacy protections", in CNET News, March 14, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Feds test new data mining program," in USA Today, March 7, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Caller ID Spoofing Round Two: Bill Now Heads to Full Committee," in Telecom Policy Report, March 5, 2007, with EPIC Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"'Privacy Panel' Okays White House's Electronic Eavesdropping Program," in New York Sun, March 5, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Insider ID Threats," in Red Herring, March 2, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo

"Homeland Security Abandons Plan to Make Foreign Nationals Carry Tracking Chips," February 28, 2007 at the ACS Blog cites EPIC's US-VISIT page and EPIC's comments on RFID tracking for foreign visitors
"House Moves To Outlaw Phone Number Spoofing," in InformationWeek, February 28, 2007 with EPIC Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"Adding to Security but Multiplying the Fears," in The New York Times, February 26, 2007 with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Homeland Security Goes Local," at the Council for Foreign Relations, February 26, 2007, cites EPIC's Amicus Brief in Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court (US 2004)
"Legislation Targets Data Security," in PCWorld, February 25, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Backscatter",(video) on ABC Nightly News, February 23, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Fusion Centers: Intelligence Goes Local," at the Council for Foreign Relations, February 22, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"New Airport Scanner Gets Personal," at CBS News, February 22, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"REAL ID Act Could Endanger Victims of Domestic Violence," February 21, 2007 at ACS Blog cites EPICs testimony before the Maryland Senate on a proposal to repeal the Real ID Act
"Reverse 911", on CNN, February 19, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Second Hospital Reports Lost Data," in The Baltimore Sun, February 13, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Congress Seeks 'Bite' for Privacy Watchdog," in The Washington Post, February 13, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Escaping the Watch List," in U.S. News and World Report, February 11, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"New Pretexting Bill Introduced in Congress," in CIO Magazine, February 9, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Debate Growing Over Data Security," in The Baltimore Sun, February 9, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Does Real ID Really Work?", in the Washington Technology, February 8, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"A Medical ID Business, Much Criticized, Plans a Stock Offering," coverage in The New York Times, February 5, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Phone rules to halt pretexting are debated," coverage in The Boston Globe, February 5, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"FBI wants first notice when phone records stolen", RCR Wireless News, February 5, 2007, with EPIC Associate Director Lillie Coney
"Genetic Profiling", on Examiner.com, February 2, 2007, with EPIC ID and Surveillance Project Director Melissa Ngo
"Howard Bernstein Dies at 63," in Wesleyan Connection, February 1, 20007, notes that Professor Bernstein's family asked that memorial contributions be made to several organizations, including EPIC

"Hollywood Dips Into Watermarking," in Red Herring, January 30, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Hilary: The Privacy Candidate," in Wired, January 24, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Is Baseball Drugs Ruling a Fourth-Amendment Foul?", in The Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Fixing the E-Voting Mess," in Information Week, January 15, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"NSA Helped Microsoft Set Security for VISTA", in Computerworld, January 15, 2007, with EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg
"Justice Dept. Pushes FBI to Hasten Data Sharing", on CSOonline.com, January 9, 2007, with EPIC Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight
"DOJ Pushes To Broaden Data Sharing", in Computerworld, January, 2007, with EPIC Privacy and Human Rights Project Director Allison Knight

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